The pool in Lower Wick is 47 years old this summer. The Lower Wick pool emerged from the determined efforts of a group called Worcester Citizens Swimming Bath Association, which took the bull by the horns in the 1960s after plans to replace the elderly and privately owned Parks's Bath in Sansome Walk with a new facility, hit the buffers when the city council suddenly announced it hadn't got the money for such "luxury" projects. January 1974, and the pool is taking shape. When complete, its waters were heated by methane gas from the nearby sewage treatment works Led by Alderman Stanley Marshall, the WCSBA eventually got the money together and looked at all sorts of sites, including Cripplegate Park, the YMCA in Henwick Road and the edge of Pitchcroft by The Moors, before dairy farmer John Bennett – son of a former mayor – generously donated land at Lower Wick with the pool water heater ingeniously powered by methane gas from his cows.